I was born and raised in San Diego CA a long time ago. Throughout my life I have dabbled with the arts, painting moustaches on posters, scribbling DiVinci style sketches on the corners of my homework, even occasionally selling something to an unsuspecting public. I studied Architecture in college and tried a few years designing houses in the San Diego area. (Most of which still stand to this day!!) From 1989 to 2005 I took my family to the Sierra's, where I served as Artist/Architect for Hume Lake Christian Camps. While in the Sierra I took up sailing and painting to console my longing for salt water and surf. These paintings are a result of that longing and angst. (I've been told that paintings from a tortured soul sell better...). In the summer of 2005 we came back in San Diego where I am making an attempt at painting full time, and working at a small youth camp in the Cuyamaca Mountians. I find much inspiration at my home in Pine Valley or on surf trips and of course in the beautiful San Diego area.

For a few years I got to provide the illustrations for Dave Parmenter’s wacky surf serial called “Everybody Surfs” which was published monthly in Surfer Magazine. That was sweet. But the coolest thing that has happened is that I get to hang paintings in the trade show booth of THE One and Only big wave pioneer and all round good guy ... Greg Noll. Yep, it is true, I am a shameless name dropper... but this is a pretty sweet gig.

You can find my paintings at the beautiful new McKibben Studio Gallery in Laguna Beach California, the coolest gallery on the planet, and at Jed Noll Surfboards in San Clemente and, of course, on this website which you are now perusing.